# Epoch Pre

> This gain entry consolidates documented Epoch Pre variants, controls, settings and roles across dated guitarist pedalboards.

- Canonical page: https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/epoch-pre/
- Machine-readable index of the archive: https://pedalboardarchive.com/llms.txt
- Evidence and reconstruction conventions: https://pedalboardarchive.com/methodology/

- **Category:** Gain
- **Types:** Boost, Buffer, Preamp
- **Also known as:** Catalinbread Epoch Pre, Echoplex-style preamp
- **Controls:** Bias, Boost, Early / Late voicing
- **Identification:** The model is identified.
- **Documented appearances:** 1 board, 2020

A small dark preamp recreating the coloration and boost of an EP-3 tape echo front end.

## Documented boards

Each row is an observed appearance on a dated board. A position is only an observed one where that board's order evidence says so.

| Artist | Board | Date | Positions | Order evidence | Page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ed O'Brien | Earth tour ten-loop board | 2020-02-08 | 10 | Cable-traced | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/ed-o-brien/earth-tour-loop-board-2020/ |